Obama's speech could help push for Ft. Hood victims

Rep. Rooney: Obama's speech could help push for Ft. Hood victims
FOX News
By Justin Sink
05/24/13

Rep. Tom Rooney (R-Fla.) said Friday that President Obama's discussion of the Ft. Hood shooting during his counterterrorism speech on Thursday would buoy efforts to have the Department of Defense reclassify the Fort Hood massacre “workplace violence” rather than terrorism.

"When he put Ft. Hood in the same breath as Boston … he was basically making our case for us," Rooney told Fox News.

Thirteen people were killed and 29 others were wounded in the shooting by Maj. Nidal Hasan, who was allegedly radicalized by al Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. But the victims of the attack have been denied Purple Hearts and certain combat-related benefits because the massacre was determined to be "workplace violence" rather than combat violence.
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